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Professor Rebecca K. Lindsey from the Department of Chemical and Engineering at the University of Michigan is the 2023 winner of the CoMSEF Young Investigator Award. She is cited “for transformative advances in understanding chemistry under extreme conditions, made possible by her pioneering developments in machine learned interatomic model frameworks.” Prior to joining the faculty at Michigan in 2022, Rebecca led various research teams within the Energetic Materials Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a post-doctoral associate and staff research scientist. She received her PhD from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2016. Prof. Lindsay delivered a presentation describing her research during the CoMSEF Plenary Session at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting. The CoMSEF Young Investigator Award is given annually to a CoMSEF member who is within 7 years of completion of their highest degree.